Where Form Meets Function. Steveo27’s Bolt-on Thread (Camping/Fishing/Weekend Exploring Build)

Trucks lookin good!

how's the GLI?

 

It’s on the back burner still.


Finally gave in a did a cab mount chop. After I put the wheel spacers on, the front tires were rubbing at full lock.




I need to get the new tires mounted and flex the suspension out to make sure everything clears before welding it back together.

 

Does this site have a :steveo: emoji ? I don't see the :beer:

 

Ooohhh. Shit

 

More random stuff.

Driver side headlight started randomly fogging up after being fine since the last time I redid the retrofits. Took it apart. Dumped this out of it.



Used this as an opportunity to fix this and the broken bucket tab. Swapped buckets from a spare set of lights.





More trimming -








More ransoms shit -

new dust seals.








New calipers, pads, and rotors.

 

I trimmed more shit



I moved the aux fog lights from behind the grille to the bumper. The mesh grille blocked more light than I thought



I added a set of aux high mount back up lights to the shell




I repainted some of the dashboard trim



Repainted the grille mesh



Repainted the cup holder



I fixed my flappy mud flaps





I built a new solar shower. This one has twice the capacity of the old one





And I took a picture

 

Tankless hot water heater.

This thing is awesome.

 

100% sorted

 

Rewrapped the roof -









The old vinyl was fading and at the end of its life.

Picked up a bumper off of Craigslist. Mine had some damage and this one is in better shape -







Way better now.

The spare bumper came with a set of flare extensions so I kicked around the idea of trimming the shit out of them -





Not 100% sold on it though.

 

Did a couple things….

Another oil change -




E locker stopped working. Took the actuator apart -









Replaced it -





Fixed.

And I rebuilt my Chinese diesel heater -







And a random photo -

 

More shit no one cares about -

Redoing/finishing my solar setup.

Picked up a Bluetooth module to monitor to my solar controller.



Picked up a battery monitor too.



House battery is bad, has multiple bad cells. Thankfully Advance Auto actually stands behind their warranty. So that got replaced.



The temp sensor for the solar controller stopped reading correctly so that got replace.




Horn stopped working unless the steering wheel was turned 90*. Clock spring crapped out at 179k miles.






This shit is my new favorite cleaning product.







And I drove around in the woods







Pretty happy with how the suspension flexes.

 

More random shit no one cares about….

New lower ball joints







Rebuilt the uppers



Redesigned the water heater to live in the tote.



Picked up a 12” 20v battery chainsaw to keep in the truck for wheeling and camping.

 

Gawd, that ball joint looks like it was a miserable replacement. I really like that chain saw though! Deets??